“As a Black network committed to transformation, we are particularly grateful to Fidel for holding Mama Assata Shakur, who continues to inspire us,” it continues.

Radical black revolutionary Assata Shakur acquired political asylum in Cuba courtesy of Castro after she was convicted in the United States for the 1973 execution-style murder of New Jersey State Trooper Warner Foerster, according to The Washington Post.

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Despite being a convicted cop-killer, Shakur is considered by BLM to be a hero, as are Michael Finney, Charles Hill and Ralph Goodwin, three fellow radical revolutionaries who also fled to Cuba after having killed a cop, as reported by CBS News.

“We are thankful that [Castro] provided a home for Brother Michael Finney Ralph Goodwin, and Charles Hill … and sanctuary for so many other Black revolutionaries who were being persecuted by the American government during the Black Power era,” the BLM message adds.

Totaling a bit under 600 words, the rant also lays out the lessons that BLM members should derive from Castro’s brutal Cuban Revolution, which according to a piece published in The Wall Street Journal 11 years ago led to countless deaths via firing squads, extrajudicial assassinations and beatings.

“From Fidel, we know that revolution is sparked by an idea, by radical imaginings, which sometimes take root first among just a few dozen people coming together in the mountains,” it reads. “It can be a tattered group of meager resources, like in Sierra Maestro in 1956 or St. Elmo Village in 2013.”

Not a single mention is made in the piece of Castro’s draconian rule, human rights abuses or denial of fundamental freedoms.

The Facebook page that shared the message has over 230,000 fans, while the corresponding Twitter account has 192,000 followers.